You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.